Skip to main content
Become a member
Donate
Shop
Venue hire
Search
Royal Museums Greenwich
Main navigation
Menu
Royal Museums Greenwich
Search
Close
Plan your visit
Back
Plan your visit
Tickets and prices
Getting here
Accessibility
Family visits
Group visits
School visits
Cutty Sark
Cutty Sark
Open daily 10am - 5pm
Last entry 4.15pm
Adult: £22 | Child: £11
Members go free
Free
National Maritime Museum
National Maritime Museum
Open daily 10am-5pm
Last entry 4.15pm
Free entry
Booking recommended
Free
Queen's House
Queen's House
Open daily 10am - 5pm
Last entry 4.15pm
Free entry
Booking recommended
Royal Observatory
Royal Observatory
Open daily 10am-7.45pm
Last entry 7pm
Adult: £24 | Child: £12
Members go free
What's on
Back
What's on
Planetarium shows
Exhibitions
For families
Member events
Talks and tours
In Greenwich
Events and festivals
Refugee Week 2025
Find out about the events taking place at Royal Museums Greenwich to mark Refugee Week
National Maritime Museum
Exhibitions
Pirates
Explore the myth, discover the truth: Pirates at the National Maritime Museum is now open
Cutty Sark
Experiences
Cutty Sark Rig Climb
Experience life at sea and climb the rigging of one of London's true icons
Stories
Back
Stories
Maritime history
Space and astronomy
Art and culture
The ocean
Time
Royal history
Turning our view of the world inside out: introducing the new Ocean Map
The National Maritime Museum's Ocean Map reminds us just how much of the Earth is covered by water – and how important the ocean is to our planet
Summer and winter solstices explained – how the Sun determines the longest and shortest days of the year
Find out how the position of the Sun determines the longest and shortest days of the year in this special Royal Observatory Greenwich Illuminates extract
Women artists in the Queen's House
Discover some of the contemporary works and historic pieces taking pride of place at the Queen's House
Collections
Back
Collections
Conservation
Research
Donating items to our collection
Collections Online
Search our online database and explore our objects, paintings, archives and library collections from home
The Prince Philip Maritime Collections Centre
Come behind the scenes at our state-of-the-art conservation studio
Caird Library
Visit the world's largest maritime library and archive collection at the National Maritime Museum
Learn
Back
Learn
School trips and workshops
Self-guided school visits
Online resources and activities
Booking an on-site schools session
Booking a digital schools session
Young people and youth groups
Support us
Back
Support us
Become a member
Donate
Corporate partnerships
Become a patron
Leave a legacy
Commemoration and celebration
Our sites
Cutty Sark
National Maritime Museum
Queen's House
Royal Observatory
Become a member
Donate
Shop
Venue hire
Search
Beta
Back to All Results
Explore our Collection
Objects
Library
Archive
Search our collection
Filters…
Search
Item Category
Select…
Item Category
Item Category
Apply Filter
Type
Select…
Type
Type
Colour transparency
Apply Filter
Materials
Select…
Materials
Materials
card (mount)
plastic (mount)
Polyester negative
polyester negative
Apply Filter
Display Location
Select…
Display Location
Display Location
Not on display
Apply Filter
Creator
Select…
Creator
Creator
Henry P. Bird
Apply Filter
Places
Select…
Places
Places
Al Kibrit
Arabian Sea
Azores
Bandar-e Khomeyni
Bermuda
Bruges
Bruges, West Flanders, Flanders, Belgium
Busan
Busan, Busan Special City, South Korea
Cairns
Cairns, Queensland, Australia
Cape of Good Hope
Cape of Good Hope, Western Cape, South Africa
Cape Town
Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa
Castries
Castries, Saint Lucia
Chapman's Peak, West Province, South Africa
Cowes
Cowes, Isle of Wight, England, United Kingdom
Crete, Greece
Curacao
Dammam
Dammam, Ash Sharqiyah, Saudi Arabia
Dockyard Creek
Dunkirk
East Cowes
East Cowes, Isle of Wight, England, United Kingdom
East Meon
Freetown
Gibraltar
Grand Harbour
Greenwich
Greenwich, Royal Borough of Greenwich, London, Greater London, England, United Kingdom
Hamburg
Hamburg, Hamburg State, Germany
Hampshire
Heraklion
Ireland Island North
Ireland Island North, Sandy's Parish, Bermuda
Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa
Kalamata
Lauzon
Lower Upnor
Malta
Mina-al-Ahmadi
Mina-al-Ahmadi, Kuwait
Mombasa
Mombasa, Mombasa County, Kenya
Papeete
Papeete, French Polynesia
Persian Gulf
Port Moresby
Port Moresby, National Capital, Papua New Guinea
Port Tewfik
Region of Crete
River Meon
Rochester
Rochester, Medway, England, United Kingdom
Rotterdam
Rotterdam, South Holland Province, Netherlands
Saint Thomas
Sandy's Parish
Sandy's Parish, Bermuda
San Juan
San Juan, San Juan Municipality, Puerto Rico
Sassari Province
Shoreham by Sea
Singapore
Siracusa Province
Siracusa Province, Sicily, Italy
Southampton
Southampton, City of Southampton, England, United Kingdom
St. Lawrence River
St. Martin
St. Martin, Leeward Islands
Suez Canal
Suez Canal, Suez Governorate, Egypt
Suva
Suva, Central Division, Fiji
Tel Aviv-Jaffa, Tel Aviv District, Israel
The Great Barrier Reefs
The Great Barrier Reefs, Queensland, Australia
The Solent
The Solent, England, United Kingdom
Treguier
Treguier, Brittany, France
Valletta
Virgin Islands of the United States
Willemstad
Willemstad, Curacao, Land Curacao
Apply Filter
Vessels
Select…
Vessels
Vessels
Anderida (1971)
Arethusa II (1911)
Azalea (1971)
Bidford Priory (1960)
Blake (1945)
Calshot Spit (1914)
Cambria (1906)
Canberra (1961)
Carisbrooke Castle (1959)
Cunard Adventurer (1971)
Cutty Sark (1869)
Derbyshire (1966)
Hebe (1946)
Ivernia (1955)
John W Mackay (1922)
Mercury (1962)
Nedlloyd Maretania (1977)
Punta Morocotto (1951)
Queen Elizabeth 2 (1969)
Salvia (1972)
Sand Skua (1971)
Sand Swan (1970)
Sea Rhine (1978)
Shearwater (1969)
Shearwater 4 (1973)
Sirius (1964)
St. Lucian (1961)
Stability (1949)
Thalis O. Milissios (1909)
Tiger (1945)
Universe Admiral (1957)
Youpwe (1978)
Apply Filter
People
Select…
People
People
Barnet, Graham
Captain Reynolds
Enrique, Luis
Gomez
Kiltau, Carlos
Landaverde, Tito
Luis, Danilo
Maeda, Eichi
Ming, John Chow Fat
Reyes, Oscar
Taylor, Keith
Apply Filter
Century
Select…
Century
Century
20th
Apply Filter
Date Range
Select…
Date Range
Date From
Select...
1973
1974
1975
1976
1978
1980
1983
1984
Date To
Select...
8
9
1973
1974
1975
1976
1978
1980
1983
1984
Apply Filter
Show only:
With images
Applied Filters
Henry P. Bird
Clear all
showing 431 objects results
Sort by
Relevance
Object title/name
Object title/name (desc)
Finding reference
Finding reference (desc)
Seven crewmen holding a spliced cable on board the cable ship John W. Mackay (1922) at sea (Colour transparency)
A view of the Palazzo Arezzo Della Targia in Syracuse, Sicily (Colour transparency)
A view of the cable tanks and loading gantries at the docks of Southampton, United Kingdom (Colour transparency)
A view looking astern from the bridge of the sand suction dredger Sand Swan (1970) at sea (Colour transparency)
The sand suction dredger Sand Swan (1971) underway at sea (Colour transparency)
A street scene in Mombasa, Kenya (Colour transparency)
A crewman standing next to the five sheave gear on board the cable ship John W. Mackay (1922) (Colour transparency)
A top down view of one of the cable tanks on board the cable ship John W. Mackay (1922) at sea (Colour transparency)
A half portrait of the cook Keith Taylor in the galley on board the motor coaster Sea Rhine (1978) (Colour transparency)
Two engineers performing maintenance on the fairing teeth of the high pressure turbine pinion on board the steam turbine tanker Bidford Priory (1960) at sea (Colour transparency)
A cargo of sand being discharged on board the sand suction dredger Sand Swan (1971) berthed in Bruges, Belgium (Colour transparency)
The Cable and Wireless Cable Ltd depot in Suva, Fiji taken from the cable ship John W. Mackay (1922) (Colour transparency)
A view of the foredeck of the cable ship John W. Mackay (1922) at sea (Colour transparency)
A view looking forward of cable buoys on board the cable ship John W. Mackay (1922) at sea (Colour transparency)
A facing view of the entrance to the Seaman's guest house in Mina-al-Ahmadi, Kuwait (Colour transparency)
Two engineers performing maintenance on the fairing teeth of the high pressure turbine pinion on board the steam turbine tanker Bidford Priory (1960) at sea (Colour transparency)
A view looking aft at the wheelhouse of the motor coaster King On (1949) at sea (Colour transparency)
A view of two crewman feeding a cable into a tank on board the cable ship John W. Mackay (1922) (Colour transparency)
A view of the container cells on board the container ship Nedlloyd Maretania (1977) at sea (Colour transparency)
A view of the forecastle taken from the bridge of the motor coaster King On (1949) at sea in heavy weather. (Colour transparency)
A view of a recovered cable being cut on the deck of the cable ship John W. Mackay (1922) at sea (Colour transparency)
A view of a partially coiled tank cone on board the cable ship John W. Mackay (1922) (Colour transparency)
A view of the test room on board the cable ship John W. Mackay (1922) (Colour transparency)
A cable repeater being moved on board the cable ship John W. Mackay (1922) (Colour transparency)
First
Prev
…
Page
3
Page
4
Current page
5
Page
6
Page
7
…
Next
Last
Loading filters
Royal Museums Greenwich
Close
Search
Want to search our collection? Search here.
Back To Top